Today I am thrilled to join millions across the country in celebration of the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage across all 50 states. In honor of the decision, along with joining the facebook “Celebrate Pride” campaign with this blog’s facebook profile pic, I thought I would repost one of the blog’s most popular entries. Please enjoy, comment, take pride, etc, and remember that there is still much work to be done. ...http://www.patheos.com/blogs/americanbuddhist/2015/06/celebrating-same-sex-marriage-in-buddhism.html

Great... So the next step will be marriage under 14 and then marriage with animals... How could a disciple of the Buddha be happy when sensual desire takes on such dimensions and hiri get's lost...

Be sure, that somebody with only a little wisdom, will never celebrate the downfall of this world. That is actually all you have got by those pseudo liberal monks...

what do such unusual modern marriage arrangements have at all to do with Buddhism?I don't see it as anything to worry nor to celebrate.And why would a monk chime in on it in such a derisive manner? Are such the customs of the noble ones ?

Your colleague @Paññobhāsa whom you critized here in an unintelligible manner at least has some more nuanced thoughts about these topics, although I don't see why it is important for him or for interested in the Dhamma at all.

Sadhu Nyom Moritz . There is nothing what does not arise in Samsara...

Actually one is right in thinking "Well, if they would understand they would not do.", and see it just as a further persersion of decaying times, giving him food for disattachment to the world.

As for pointing out such: Since it is dominant today, giving even the holly life such ideals, its good to open ways that one could see the effects of pseudo liberality.

As for Bhante Paññobhāsa , my person, and surely many, worry a lot of his future, not only because he tries to "fight" world with world, not seeing being caught himself at all.

There is no danger for one having found solide convidemce, and such hints are not meant to increase a "we" and "they at all, but to possible open the eyes of one in doubt, that convidence in the Dhamma has nothing to do with approval of desire.

Yet knowing for example simply people in remote areas, where people live open next to each other, knowing that they are with defilements and openly and friendly accept each other, speaking open in regard of strange tendencies, like one with a to long and one with a to short nose, now both knowing that they are imperfect, not fighting for approval of to short and to long noses should be seen as perfect as well and so do not cut away real desire-worthy aims and Noble Ones.

While to draw a picture that pseudo liberalism is the same as real liberal is very poisonous for society in lage and will at the end bring them strong rightwing Führers automaticaly. So the "problem" is not directly the freaky apprearance but that what will naturaly come when people at lage feel to much disturbed and endangered in ethical security. But this folk does not learn...

And you are right in saying, that is not what should be a monks business, but Atma hopes that he can provide with the "testing" purpose of such kitchen posts and he hardly is able to catch someone here, and that actually makes him kind of glad of the members of reader and supporter.

So such post are merely for those clinging to extrem views of pseudo liberalism althought it might not easy help, like in the case of Sujato and his freaky fellows of Dhamma - punks. If one feels nailed down with something that is really not good, seeing his extrems do not bring honor (such people seek at least such) one might bend his ways, when "friends" turn away.

* Johann : could not find out what's the problem with mentioning. It happens periodical and might have to do with a java problem, maybe a conflict with another (by the runnig extern webpages here perhaps? No means to investigate. Khemindas an Sujato Bhikkhu did not work as well. So it does not seem to be a diacritics problem.

And what is the message here in means of the Dhamma and the danger of approving strange things generally, having "leaders" of what is good and bad, embody absurdness?

Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa

Lokapala Sutta: The Bright Protectors

"Bhikkhus, these two bright principles protect the world. What are the two? Shame and fear of wrongdoing. If, bhikkhus, these two bright principles did not protect the world, there would not be discerned respect for mother or maternal aunt or maternal uncle's wife or a teacher's wife or the wives of other honored persons, and the world would have fallen into promiscuity, as with goats, sheep, chickens, pigs, dogs, and jackals. But as these two bright principles protect the world, there is discerned respect for mother... and the wives of other honored persons."

And, just to make clear, such things can be found in any tradition, as long peoples are not in or bound to the Sangha of the Noble Ones.

So a person with moral shame and conscience, in the case he is not able to overcome his tendencies, would not care name and image of worthy ones but have a sense of shame. Like a smoker would not glorify his disability and leave the room to maintain his addictions desire.

"Bhikkhus, one possessing four qualities is deposited in hell as if brought there. What four? (1) Without investigating and scrutinizing, one speaks praise of one who deserves dispraise. (2) Without investigating and scrutinizing, one speaks dispraise of one who deserves praise. (3) Without investigating and scrutinizing, one believes a matter that merits suspicion. (4) Without investigating and scrutinizing, one is suspicious about a matter that merits belief. Possessing these four qualities one is deposited in hell as if brought there.

"Bhikkhus, one possessing four [other] qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? (1) Having investigated and scrutinized, one speaks dispraise of one who deserves dispraise. (2) Having investigated and scrutinized, one speaks praise of one who deserves praise. (3) Having investigated and scrutinized, one is suspicious about a matter that merits suspicion. (4) Having investigated and scrutinized, one believes a matter that merits belief. Possessing these four qualities one is deposited in heaven as if brought there."

"There are, Potaliya, those four kinds of persons found existing in the world. Of those four, the one that is the most excellent and sublime is the one who speaks dispraise of someone who deserves dispraise, and the dispraise is accurate, truthful, and timely; and who also speaks praise of someone who deserves praise, and the praise is accurate, truthful, and timely. For what reason? Because what excels, Potaliya, is knowledge of the proper time to speak in any particular case."